„What person with any sense likes himself? I know myself too well to like myself.“

— Golda Meir

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„I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to.“
— Maya Angelou
„I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.“
— Sylvia Plath
„You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.“
— Cassandra Clare
„I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.“
— Haruki Murakami
„Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person“
— Sylvia Plath
„I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.“
— Sophia Loren
„In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.“
— Haruki Murakami